By Jeremy Herb, Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN The House January 6 committee will use its third June hearing to make the case that then-President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on his vice president to overturn the 2020 presidential election “directly contributed” to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, which
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs on Wednesday said European leaders must not be deterred by a fear of provoking Russian President Vladimir Putin and the international community must not pressure Ukraine into making concessions to end the war. In an exclusive interview with CNN in Washington, DC, Rinkēvičs also outlined Latvia’s
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs on Wednesday said European leaders must not be deterred by a fear of provoking Russian President Vladimir Putin and the international community must not pressure Ukraine into making concessions to end the war. In an exclusive interview with CNN in Washington, DC, Rinkēvičs also outlined Latvia’s
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb, Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN The House January 6 committee will use its third June hearing to make the case that then-President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on his vice president to overturn the 2020 presidential election “directly contributed” to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, which
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The city of Columbia will close offices on Monday in observance of Juneteenth.
Continue Reading By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Republican voters this week picked Nevada businessman Jim Marchant as their nominee for secretary of state, bringing yet another 2020 election denier closer to overseeing elections in 2024 in a presidential battleground state. Last month, Pennsylvania Republicans chose as their gubernatorial nominee a staunch defender of former President Donald Trump and
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, CNN A portion of a Washington, DC, street will memorialize murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, with a sign in his honor unveiled Wednesday in front of the Saudi embassy in the city. The unveiling of “Jamal Khashoggi Way,” a stretch of New Hampshire Avenue between Virginia Avenue NW and F Street
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz and Shawna Mizelle, CNN John Hinckley Jr. has been freed from all court restrictions, marking the end of years of government oversight nearly four decades after he shot and wounded then-President Ronald Reagan. “After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!” Hinckley tweeted Wednesday afternoon. Earlier this month, US
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN A lawyer for one of the Proud Boys charged with seditious conspiracy released a 9-page document on Wednesday that outlines a plan to occupy key congressional buildings connected to the US Capitol and the Supreme Court on January 6, 2021, and to distribute a list of demands calling
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand The man who was captured parading through the US Capitol with a large Confederate flag during the January 6, 2021 riot, was — along with his son — found guilty by a federal judge on Wednesday of obstructing an official proceeding, a felony. Kevin Seefried, with his wife, son Hunter and son’s
Continue Reading By Michael Warren, CNN The campaign of Herschel Walker publicly acknowledged this week that the Republican Senate candidate has a second son with a woman who was not his wife. The Georgia GOP nominee’s admission follows a Tuesday report in the Daily Beast that Walker fathered a son more than a decade ago. The Beast
Continue Reading By Gregory Krieg, CNN Republican Mayra Flores will win the special election for Texas’ 34th Congressional District, CNN projects, giving Republicans an additional seat in the House. Flores will best a field of four candidates — two Republicans and two Democrats — in the all-party contest to succeed former Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela, who vacated
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen, Ryan Nobles and Annie Grayer, CNN Members of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are in wide agreement that former President Donald Trump committed a crime when he pushed a conspiracy to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. But they are split over what
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The United States government on Wednesday designated an individual connected to the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) — an ultranationalist, White supremacist organization — as a terrorist and sanctioned two others for involvement with the group. The organization and three of its leaders were classified as terrorists in 2020 by the US
Continue Reading By Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Clare Foran, CNN Senate negotiators are scrambling to hammer out legislative text for a long-sought bipartisan gun deal, but they are in danger of missing a self-imposed, end-of-the-week deadline due to lingering sticking points. Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the chief GOP negotiator, told CNN two key issues — funding
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN Three environmental law groups have sued the Biden administration in an attempt to block more than 3,500 permit applications from energy companies to drill for oil and gas on public lands. The environmental groups filed the lawsuit in the District Court of Washington, DC, against the Bureau of Land Management, saying
Continue Reading By Whitney Wild, Evan Perez, Manu Raju and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday that the Justice Department takes threats against Supreme Court justices “extraordinarily seriously” as he voiced support for a bill that extends security protections to justices’ immediate family members. Garland reiterated that justices now receive “24-7 protection,” including at
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Ryan Nobles, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot has released footage that shows one of the individuals to whom GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia gave a tour on January 5 was outside the building during the insurrection screaming threats about House
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice A federal judge on Wednesday refused to throw out the charges against Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress, sending the former Donald Trump adviser to trial next month. Judge Carl Nichols of the DC District Court rejected Bannon’s motion to dismiss the case against him, including his
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed, Priscilla Alvarez and Chandelis Duster, CNN The Supreme Court dismissed an appeal Wednesday brought by a group of Republican-led states seeking to intervene in a case challenging the Trump-era “public charge” immigration policy, a version of which the Biden administration has abandoned. The case did not center on the
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